Rugby World Cup

[VillaZogmariner]

Is this Ref taking the piss?

[taylorsworkrate]

That is awful, just awful refereeing.  He'd just warned Argentina about their penalty count. 

[villan1975]

If Wilkinson can't kick he needs to come off.He offers nothing else.

[taylorsworkrate]

Blimey.

[villan1975]

Get in!!!

[taylorsworkrate]

Even Jonny today can't miss this conversion.

[VillaZogmariner]

Finally.

[UK Redsox]

What was I saying about Youngs?

If he's fully fit, why the feck wasn't he starting?

[taylorsworkrate]

Youngs has been our best player by such a long way, and hes only been on for 15 minutes.

[villan1975]

Youngs has been our best player by such a long way, and hes only been on for 15 minutes.

Totally agree as he has changed the pace and direction of our play.

[taylorsworkrate]

What was I saying about Youngs?

If he's fully fit, why the feck wasn't he starting?

It just looks as if they've abandoned the game plan that served them well in the autumn and six nations, and gone for a far more negative approach. 

Thompson and Wilkinson, great players they have been, offer little to this current side.  Get Flood, Youngs and Hartley back in and have a go.

[taylorsworkrate]

Still think we need another score.  Can definitely see us giving away a penalty at some stage.

[taylorsworkrate]

That should be it now.

[villan1975]

We don't half like making it hard work.
A win is a win.

[taylorsworkrate]

Very poor performance, but it reads as a win in the table.

Thankfully now we have Romania and Georgia to play, (although on todays evidence, neither will be a given) before we have  Scotland.

The game plan has to change.  Against a decent side, (Argentina not bad, but nowhere near the force they were 4 years ago) that negative, turgid crap will see us beaten.

Get Thompson, Wilkinson and Wigglesworth out, Hartley, Flood and Youngs in and play with width and ambition.  We have two high quality players in Foden and Ashton who are being completely wasted in our current scheme.

I suppose the only positives are the way that Youngs played and that we showed a little bit of character towards the end (although I suspect Argentina's poorer fitness levels had a good deal to do with that)